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Robots and the people who love them, with Eve Herold
Season 1 Episode 71
In this episode, our subject is the rise of the robots – not the military kind of robots, or the automated manufacturing kind that increasingly fill …
2 years, 4 months ago
Education and work - past, present, and future, with Riaz Shah
Season 1 Episode 70
Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for 27 years, specialising in technology and innovatio…
2 years, 5 months ago
What is your p(doom)? with Darren McKee
Season 1 Episode 69
In this episode, our subject is Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. That’s a new book on a vit…
2 years, 5 months ago
Climate Change: There’s good news and bad news, with Nick Mabey
Season 1 Episode 68
Our guest in this episode is Nick Mabey, the co-founder and co-CEO of one of the world’s most influential climate change think tanks, E3G, where the …
2 years, 5 months ago
Meet the electrome! with Sally Adee
Season 1 Episode 67
Our subject in this episode is the idea that the body uses electricity in more ways than are presently fully understood. We consider ways in which el…
2 years, 5 months ago
Don't try to make AI safe; instead, make safe AI, with Stuart Russell
Season 1 Episode 66
We are honoured to have as our guest in this episode Professor Stuart Russell. Stuart is professor of computer science at the University of Californi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Aligning AI, before it's too late, with Rebecca Gorman
Season 1 Episode 65
Our guest in this episode is Rebecca Gorman, the co-founder and CEO of Aligned AI, a start-up in Oxford which describes itself rather nicely as worki…
2 years, 6 months ago
Shazam! with Dhiraj Mukherjee
Season 1 Episode 64
Our guest in this episode is Dhiraj Mukherjee, best known as the co-founder of Shazam. Calum and David both still remember the sense of amazement we …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Politics of Transhumanism, with James Hughes
Season 1 Episode 63
Our guest in this episode is James Hughes. James is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as Associate Provost at the University of Massachusetts …
2 years, 7 months ago
How to make AI safe, according to the tech giants, with Rebecca Finlay, CEO of PAI
Season 1 Episode 62
The Partnership on AI was launched back in September 2016, during an earlier flurry of interest in AI, as a forum for the tech giants to meet leaders…
2 years, 7 months ago